Table 4.

Potential alternative housing services (AHS) served by an NC and its relation with obsolescence levels (revised)

Alternative housing services
(AHS)
ServiceDescriptionOL
ABC
Complementary services (CS)
Services self-managed by the neighbourhood to provide services to specific groups
Assistance for older persons (CS-AE)The NC allows older people who live alone to be grouped into homes which will be adapted to a universal design whereas the rest are put out for rent to finance rehabilitation and specific assistance  
Sustainable mobility (CS-SM)A community car-sharing service manages a fleet of non-CO2 vehicles (bicycles, e-bicycles, e-mopeds, solar vehicles, electric and hybrids) 
Advanced services (AS)
Creation of business niches
Leasing of neighbourhood spaces (AS-LNS)Manage the available spaces – publicly or privately owned – in the neighbourhood to develop and generate direct income   
• Unoccupied housing: management in the rental of empty housing   
• Area for photovoltaic production: assignment of roofs as a catchment area for the production of photovoltaic energy for companies  
• Facades for creative advertising: the peripheral facades limiting with streets with a high housing density allow to host creative advertising (correct integration of advertising in the urban landscape)   
Increase of buildability (AS-IB)Income for increasing buildability so that the profits generated by the sale or rent of the new constructions help to finance the process   
Compensations for emissions (AS-CE)Income from the sale of CO2 emission rights when considering the neighbourhood rehabilitation project as a project with emission compensation  

Note:

OL = obsolescence level, A = physical obsolescence, B = functional obsolescence, C = environmental obsolescence

Source: Authors’ own work

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